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Ok_Act5122 t1_j6o7zuv wrote

Reply to comment by Little_Noodles in Gym bashes Union League, goes to cocktail party there next week by MagnusUnda

The older I get, the more I agree with this. I fall pretty far to the left on the spectrum, but the more I see things shake out, the more I feel that high-level government (Federal, the President) need to be the ones going big on stuff like civil rights, healthcare, social Justice, and the mayors need to be technocratic moderates who can actually take care of the little things that are in front of them.

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Little_Noodles t1_j6ob8z9 wrote

I mean, I’d like to have a mayor that’d be a little more than moderate if there’s something practical they can do in response to bad legislation, especially in this state.

So talking the talk does matter a little to me. But otherwise, yeah. Most of the mayor’s power is not in tackling state and nationwide issues. The most they can realistically do there is help rally for state and federal politicians.

Their actual job, if they’re doing it, is making sure boring shit gets handled correctly and keeping a bunch of different special interests with competing agendas not too unhappy, which mostly comes down to being good at financials.

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